Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weaver's wife Ella is an auburn-haired, fair-skinned North Carolinian who has a University of Michigan master's degree and a Northwestern University Ph.D. in speech. She did her undergraduate work at the Carnegie Tech drama department from 1929 to 1932 despite an unwritten policy that no Negroes were allowed. Everyone thought she was white-including the all-white Southern Club of Pittsburgh, which awarded her at the end of her sophomore year a scholarship for being the top Dixie-bred student...
Though satire is still around, it is not in very robust condition. Mort Sahl, once a master of the form, is as hard fo find as an old Will Rogers routine; his last television show lasted two weeks. Monologuist Bob Newhart, one of a line of snipers who picked off American postures and pretensions, is rarely seen on TV nowadays, and Sid Caesar has not been seen regularly since 1964. Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who took the Ins and made them Out to be a group of phonies, seldom appear together any more...
...standard for family entertainment. Kids adore the lethal, shiny toy collection. Dads happily ogle a prepotent heman, king of a computerized wonderland in which every foe can be swiftly vanquished, every voluptuous siren bedded. And women seem quite susceptible to the fantasy of being vicariously mauled by a master of the art, perhaps after flooring him with a karate wrist chop. Slapdash, comic-strip plots, more violent than suspenseful, are made into a joke that viewers are invited to share while soaking up the sin and splendor of strange locales, gawking at new feats of technology. The sin is mechanical...
...shoulders has not been covered up, which makes nonsense of the masked man's greeting "Why aren't you wearing your head. The masked man was played by Arthur Friedman, in white tie, top hat, tails, and cape, as well as mask--he was made up to suggest a master of ceremonies, not a representative of the powerful forces that dominate most of this play and that must, I should think, be in part responsible for Melchior's decision to turn away from the grave...
Five-year B. A. programs, which include two years of Peace Corps service, have been instituted at the University of Western Michigan and Franconia (N. H.) Credit towards a master's degree education is being given by Michigan State University to Volunteers who teach in Nigeria, and the University of Missouri will give credit towards a master's degree om community development for Volunteers in Peru...